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Looks like he read Wolfram's book http://www.wolframscience.com/nksonline/toc.html http://www.wolframscience.com/nksonline/toc.html
by adv0r 14y ago
Looks like he read Wolfram's book http://www.wolframscience.com/nksonline/toc.html http://www.wolframscience.com/nksonline/toc.html
- crisnoble 14y agoThanks for the link! I just added that one to my must read later list. (not to be confused with my always growing read later list)
- adv0r 14y agoI suggest you to buy the book , is a masterpiece imho
- da-bacon 14y agoFor a contrary opinion about the book see http://www.cscs.umich.edu/~crshalizi/reviews/wolfram/ http://www.cscs.umich.edu/~crshalizi/reviews/wolfram/ (yes I've read the book and mostly agree with that review)
- sophacles 14y agoIt is a great primer, particularly if you can look past the Wolfram "I invented everything, how awesome am I" language. Read up on some criticisms of it too, there are some things that are over-the-top, and a lot of "ink" (and bits..) has been spent on the subject.
- adv0r 14y agoyes I hate that attitude too actually "I invented everything, how awesome am I" . I'm not here to defend it. But still he deserve some recognition, afterall he is the first bringing AI to the masses with Alfa, and helped some million researcher's life with Mathematica. And, 10 years after NKS, these are somehow good results -> http://blog.stephenwolfram.com/2012/05/its-been-10-years-whats-happened-with-a-new-kind-of-science/ http://blog.stephenwolfram.com/2012/05/its-been-10-years-wha... ... You can judge people from many different perspectives, but when it comes to "getting things done", you should step back and congratulate him. again, IMHO
- sophacles 14y agoBut still he deserve some recognition, and but when it comes to "getting things done", you should step back and congratulate him My first words were "it's a great primer", followed with a suggestion for how to get the most from the work. I'm not trying to downplay Wolfram's other work either, just pointing out that there are issues and grains of salt to take with this particular work.
- akx 14y agoNope, I didn't. I just accidentally stumbled upon this algorithm some years ago and ported it recently to HTML5.
- joeld42 14y agoYeah this is a fantastic book if you look past all the hyperbole about reinventing science, it's chock full of fun experiments like this.